[mahmud]

Moved a personal blog from MySQL to TokyoCabinet to Postgres? Why?

He writes:

"I have no idea how to use a key/value store database properly."

You don't need a database, or object-store or anything fancy to get decent performance for a personal blog. I use Chronicle and it spits out flat files; lighttpd uses sendfile(2) and everything is fast. FWIW, his blog software is one he wrote in Clojure:

http://github.com/briancarper/cow-blog/tree/0.2.0

For read-intensive applications, Sqlite3 would do just well.

This write-up should not influence anyone with respect to the (de)merits of MySQL, TokyoCabinet or Postgres.

[briancarper]

Why? Because it's a fun project to play with and a good way to learn. SQLite3 probably would work, yes.

I agree, this post shouldn't influence anyone. Not sure why it was submitted to HN.

[khingebjerg]

I submitted it because I like reading about your experiments with your blog, and I thought others would like it too.

A person hacking on his own stuff, just to try out things, is hacker news to me.